The final results of the 2026 Roseau North constituency by-election are now official, after the Electoral Office completed full ballot counting on Tuesday, September 8 — one day after polling closed across the district. The contest, triggered by a mid-term parliamentary vacancy, delivered a clear win to the Dominica Labour Party’s candidate Ashma McDougall, who secured a comfortable majority of valid votes to fill the empty seat in Dominica’s House of Assembly.
The vacancy that prompted the by-election was created when former representative Honourable Miriam Blanchard stepped down from her post on June 12, 2026. Under the Commonwealth of Dominica’s constitution, any parliamentary opening that occurs outside of a full general election dissolution requires a by-election to fill the seat within a three-month window, unless Parliament is dissolved before the deadline. Following constitutional protocols, Dominica’s President officially issued the election writ per Section 12 of the House of Assembly (Elections) Act, setting polling day for Monday, September 7, 2026. Voting ran from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM across 28 purpose-built polling stations distributed across the constituency’s 10 polling districts.
Full final vote tabulation confirmed McDougall captured 1,473 valid votes, accounting for 58.45% of all valid ballots cast in the contest. Her closest challenger, Daniel Andrew Lugay of the United Workers Party, finished with 998 votes, equal to 39.60% of the valid vote share. Independent candidate Sherman Boston rounded out the field with 49 votes, making up 1.95% of total valid ballots. In total, 2,520 valid votes were recorded across the constituency.
Electoral data also shows broader turnout metrics for the contest: out of 7,892 registered eligible voters in Roseau North, only 2,566 ballots were cast, putting overall voter turnout at 32.51%. Just under two-thirds of registered voters — 67.49% or 5,327 people — opted not to participate in the by-election. Of all ballots cast, 98.21% were deemed valid, while 46 ballots were rejected, accounting for 1.79% of total polled ballots.
This by-election gives Roseau North constituents a new representative to serve out the remaining term of the current parliamentary cycle, fulfilling the constitutional requirement to fill mid-term vacancies in the national legislature.